Example sentences of "and be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not much use arriving somewhere at ten in the morning clutching the collected works under your arm and wishing you had a wig and been born thirty years earlier in order to play Lear — or for that matter the Duke of Gloucester . |
| 2 | Well , my first job came during four weeks of my last term at RADA when I had applied and been chosen for a television play called It 's Too Late to Talk to Billy which was set in Belfast — which is where I came from originally . |
| 3 | As is often the case , some last-minute idea blossoms while what had seemed a brilliant solution and been pondered for ages falls quite flat . |
| 4 | To have advanced within the job and achieved rank means he is likely to have followed and supported institutional precedents without question , and to have unwittingly accepted and been involved in the reproduction of the narrow modes of thought and practice demanded by the culture . |
| 5 | Some of these cuddly toys , like the one featured in this project , had arrived in someone 's childhood as a gift from Grandma , and been loved to bits by its owner . |
| 6 | Raskolnikov asks himself after he has helped the Marmeladov family and been in contact with little children . |
| 7 | Both Price Waterhouse and now Touche Ross have dallied with the Deloitte domestic partnership and been given the cold shoulder . |
| 8 | WHAT A lucky man Dick Crossman was — and now he 's gone and been lucky again . |
| 9 | I have never sat down and been waited on hand and foot , ever . ’ |
| 10 | - You notice that the section of your local supermarket which has stocked picnic and barbecue material since the birth of time has suddenly disappeared and been replaced by a new section stocking wrapping paper , crackers and tinsel decorations . |
| 11 | The result was an emphatic seven-try victory over a courageous side who , over the past few months in their own colours and in their other incarnation as the Canadian national team , have overwhelmed Japan and the United States and been pipped by Wales and Ireland ( minus their Lions ) after surrendering leads late on . |
| 12 | ‘ Having committed one offence and been given a criminal recordfor innocent hacking , they may feel that they might as well get in a bit deeper . ’ |
| 13 | Lenin knew the Middle Volga better than any other leader , for he was born in Simbirsk , not far up river from Samara , had studied at Kazan ’ university , and been a barrister in Samara . |
| 14 | Hoskyns had built up a computer company and been active in the Centre for policy Studies before joining Mrs Thatcher . |
| 15 | A recent study has documented the many ways in which Conservative spokesmen have tried to manage the media and been conscious of the image of the government and Mrs Thatcher . |
| 16 | Where had they all gone , those extraordinary skinny left-wing men , who had bullied their girl-friends into the Women 's Movement and been surprised when the hand with which they had so kindly offered freedom had been bitten so damn hard ? |
| 17 | When she had been little , temporary lapses and been easily passed over . |
| 18 | On the other hand , Finniston feels that the younger generation is having a favourable impact on the need to rid Britain of the ‘ them and us ’ syndrome that has plagued industry for so long and been at the root of so many of its ills . |
| 19 | In under half a minute of whirring and clicking , the hood has unlocked itself and been folded away in its casing behind the back seats . |
| 20 | That was true , Erika admitted : the July Plot in 1944 when a group of officers , aristocrats to a man , had tried to assassinate Hitler and been caught and hanged with piano wire — and filmed being hanged — and the film shown at Hitler 's headquarters as after dinner entertainment … . |
| 21 | He had lived in castles and palaces , and been attended by courtiers , soldiers and valets . |
| 22 | He had plunged into the den of architects once more , and been suitably bloodied . |
| 23 | Since he was claimed for £18,000 , this gelding , formerly owned by the Queen , has won twice and been second twice on the flat when trained by Roland O'Sullivan . |
| 24 | But none of these volunteers has yet come from those screened out — only 27 have volunteered out of the 4,000 who have gone through the process and been found not to be refugees , ’ he told the Sunday Express . |
| 25 | If Sir Kenneth had done a better piece of work , and been disliked by the City simply for being too tough in representing the interests of investors , would that have been enough to keep his job ? |
| 26 | I have joined classes where I 've leapt about to Michael Jackson or thrown my pot and been surprised at the sound of my own voice when I 've paid the babysitter . |
| 27 | ‘ On the contrary , he said advertisements had their good points ; he had written a poem about Steyr automobiles and been given a car for it . |
| 28 | The Pentagon claims that the marines had shown their papers and been passed through the roadblock , when the Panamanians opened fire . |
| 29 | He has haggled on that number with the Home Secretary and been beaten down … |
| 30 | As in the NUM strike of 1984 , the women have been the backbone of this struggle : dressed in camouflage and calling themselves the Daughters of Mother Jones , after the legendary union organiser from the turn of the century , they have walked the picket lines , sat in front of coal trucks , and been arrested . |